butterine
English
Noun
butterine (countable and uncountable, plural butterines)
- An imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
- 1894, "Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods" by R. C. Kedzie in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
- If a man sells you anything as good as what you ask for, but yet entirely different, are you cheated? […] [A] man may say his butterine is as pure and wholesome as genuine butter, and therefore why not sell it as butter?
- 1894, "Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods" by R. C. Kedzie in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
References
- butterine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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